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The long-anticipated third collection from the revered Richard Siken delivers his most personal and introspective collection yet. Richard Siken's long-anticipated third collection, I Do Know Some Things, navigates the ruptured landmarks of family trauma: a mother abandons her son, a husband chooses death over his wife. While excavating these losses, personal history unfolds. We witness Siken experience the death of a boyfriend and a stroke that is neglectfully misdiagnosed as a panic attack. Here, we grapple with a body forgetting itself--"the mind that / didn't work, the leg that wouldn't move...". Meditations on language are woven throughout the collection. Nouns won't connect and Siken must speak around a meaning: "dark-struck, slumber-felt, sleep-clogged." To say "black tree" when one means "night."Siken asks us to consider what a body can and cannot relearn. "Part insight, part anecdote," he is meticulous and fearless in his explorations of the stories that build a self. Told in 77 prose poems, I Do Know Some Things teaches us about transformation. We learn to shoulder the dark, to find beauty in "The field [that] had been swept clean of habit."
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I Do Know Some Things, Richard Siken
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- Publicado en
- 2024
- Encuadernación
- (Tapa dura)
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- Título
- I Do Know Some Things
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Richard Siken
- Editorial
- Copper Canyon Press
- Publicado en
- 2024
- Formato
- Tapa dura
- Páginas
- 128
- ISBN10
- 1556596243
- ISBN13
- 9781556596247
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Poesía, Familia, Salud, Literatura americana, LGBTQ+, Secretos, Pasado, Miedo, Fantamas y apariciones, Deseo, Infancia, Soledad, Confianza, Hogar, Trauma, Dolor, Tristeza, Obsesión, Perspectiva, Estabilidad, Alteridad, otredad
- Calificación
- 4,5 de 5
- Descripción
- The long-anticipated third collection from the revered Richard Siken delivers his most personal and introspective collection yet. Richard Siken's long-anticipated third collection, I Do Know Some Things, navigates the ruptured landmarks of family trauma: a mother abandons her son, a husband chooses death over his wife. While excavating these losses, personal history unfolds. We witness Siken experience the death of a boyfriend and a stroke that is neglectfully misdiagnosed as a panic attack. Here, we grapple with a body forgetting itself--"the mind that / didn't work, the leg that wouldn't move...". Meditations on language are woven throughout the collection. Nouns won't connect and Siken must speak around a meaning: "dark-struck, slumber-felt, sleep-clogged." To say "black tree" when one means "night."Siken asks us to consider what a body can and cannot relearn. "Part insight, part anecdote," he is meticulous and fearless in his explorations of the stories that build a self. Told in 77 prose poems, I Do Know Some Things teaches us about transformation. We learn to shoulder the dark, to find beauty in "The field [that] had been swept clean of habit."